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0,000 27th Feb. Marseilles, Havre, London, Hamburg.
Rotterdam, Antwerp & Hull 10,000
6th Mar. Marseilles, Havre, Londen, Hamburg,
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0,000 13th Mar. Bombay, Marseilles & Londorf. 14,500 20th Mar. Marseilles & London.
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8,000 13th Mar.
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ANSWERS TO PROBLÈMS ON PAGE 11
The following are the answers to the questions In the test paper, for readers published on Page 11.
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1.. (a) Every human ill, but Hope; (b) Lorenzo's head; (c) "the portrait of a blinking idiot"; (d) Jove potion; (c) the remains of Mr. Druce; (1) Mr. Semitopolis's statue of Hercules.
centurion 2. (a) Jael; (b) the Hererinius, at the order (according to Plutarch) mainly of Mark Antony; (c) the Bravo mystery is still un- solved; (d) Sir. Mulberry
Sliver Blaze; (f) Jim Hawk; (e)
3. (a) In the Arbor on Hill Dimeully:
(b) at the battle of Lepanto (c) at the battle of Calvi (the reduction of Corsica) in 1704; (d) in failing to capture a treasure- lup at Santa Cruz in 1797; (c) in Badajos's breaches; (f) at the falls of Relchenbach.
II
Whitehall 1212; because It is the casiest and quickest number to dial accurately-caster than 1111, because with that the operator in liable to dial three 1' or five.
III
(1) (a) No; (b) a "character," however unfavourable, is a privileged statement, if given without malicious Intent.
(2) (6) Windows and other open- Ings, whose owners have nequired s prescriptive right to maintain, them unobstructed; (b) the estimation of a ship's position without the aid of astronomical observations; (c) cur reary or money authorized by law be used in payment. In Great Britain Treasury notes are legal tender to any amount Silver coins are legal tender for not over 40 shillings, the farthing for not over sixpence, and other bronze coins for (d) wife and over 12 pence the dinner bell children (Bacon); (e)
the (Byron); (f) the official mark Goldsmiths Company to attest the standard of gold and silver articles assayed by them; (g) the metal sign supplied in the past by insurance companies to distinguish buildings Insured by them.
hot
of
3. (a) Motor-vessel; (b) (quod which see; (c) (Setileet), cly; (d) Greenwich Mean Time; ! (e) Grand Old Man (Gladstone); (f) fire hydrant; (0) cost, insurance and freight: (h) E. V. Knox: (1) Writer to the Signet.
IV
1. (a) Dinner jacket; (b) spittoon; (c) coalscuttle; (d) bill of fare; (e) table napkin: (f) leading lady, or first performance; (g) nettlerash; (h) in the open air; (1) strictly, a large gate- way allowing carriages to drive into a courlyard; In common use, carriage porch; (1) team spirit.
2. (a) Mongooses: (b) haggises: (c) grouse; (d) still fes; (e) twins; (f) singulars.
3. (a) Smart comeback, or, smart saying, or epigram; (b) one who looks on and offers gratuitous advice; (c) ventriloquist's dummy; (d) storm and stress; the Intellectual awakening of Germany at the end of (c) rapid the eighteenth century; alternation of favourable and favourable prospects; (f) narrow. Lie metaphor derived cording to Brewer) from driving 4. (a) ibidem, in the same place; idem, the same; (b) friends and rela- tions; (c) floating wreckage and wreckage and wreckage
-un-
washed
ashore; (d) curds the coagulation, and whey the watery part remaining. after the separation of milk; (e) the
POEM
JANUARY 30,
· 1937.
NOT A RHEUMATIC
THAT HALF HOUR PAIN FOR 4 YEARS
councillors
We hear that our
moved to remember The twilightless evenings
gloomy Deccanber,
of
Az Joshun once stayed the sun
in the heaven, Propose that six thirty be re-
half
christened seven. The factory hand will rejoice
that the bikers And
cricket and of players goffers and hikers Will gain from on evening that's
hour longer, Becoming accordingly diter and
stronger. children at home, waking up in the night time, Will think it so nice to get up.
before light time
The
an
In order that sportsmen have
more time for racing
Or shooting or bowling or divat
replacing.
Its stated that this chronometric
mutation
Won't really, produce any trade
dislocation:
But as its results are apparently
scanty
The man in the street wants the
status quo ante.
G. P. de M.
Hongkong.
cockle, being a bivalve mollusc of gent Cardium, needs a bigger pin than the winkle, "which is only a gastropod molluse of genus Littorina; (f) warp the lengthwise, woof the crosswise, threads in weaving.
V
1. (1) Turnips (13,872.000 tons); (i) hay (12,720,000); (4) potatoes (7,229,000); (iv) mangolds (6,205,- 000).
2. (i) Cod (305,532 tons); (ii) herring (288,882); (ii) haddock (110,423); (v) plaice (20,931); (v) mackerel (13,139).
day);
3. (Liverpool Street (In 1933, 230,000 passengers a London Bridge (148,000); (it) Victoria Waterloo (140,000); (iv) (100,000); (v) King's Cross (60,000). 4. (1) Scotsmen (5ft 8in.); (11) Trishmen (51 Bin.): (i) Englishmen (5n. 74in.); (iv) Welshmen (5ft. 032in.).
5. (1) In Africa (4,052,000 square miles); (i) in North America (3,803,- 020); (i) in Oceania (3,300,000): (tv) in Asia (1,924,550).
VI
1. No. A legal tender requires that the exact sum of the debt must be tendered without necessitating any change. A creditor is not obliged to give change when notes are offered 10 a greater value than the amount of the debt.
70-Year-Old Man Praises Kruschen
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I am nearly 70 years of ago, and Hon Mr. B. II. Dodwell, T. 3. Feares, Ex feeling fine-thanks to Kruschien."- JAS.
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Barlimenus (Mark x, 46), whose sight was restored to him; (b) Cyril Kenneth Bird; fougasse means a small mine, and, as a term familiar to Sappers, was adopted by Mr. Bird on return from the War; (c) Nelle Porter Mitchell, born near
Melbourne, Australia, took the stage-name of Madame Melba from her birthplace: (d) Samuel Clemens; adopted the leadsman's call, Misissippi river boats, of "by the mark, twain," or simply "mark, twain"; (e) Major- General Sir Ernest Swinton; the name comes from Handersen and was that name comes from Hans Andersen und was that of the finest, story-teller in the world."
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THE MERCANTILE BANK OF 1. (a) Steele. (Macaulay, Review of
INDIA, LIMITED. Aikin's Life of Addison); (b) Chesterfield (Boswell's Life of John- Hend Ollew-1, Gracechurch Street.
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To serve in heaven" ("Paradise Lost," 1, 263); (c) to "Fee the doctor Blangkok for a nauseous draught" (Dryden, Bombay Epistle to John Dryden of Chester-Cleats ton, 1, 92):
(d) "Fifty years of Colombo Europe" (Tennyson, Locksler Hall); (iv (e) "Mentioned not at all" (John Hongkang 2. The King's choice. (It i
Wolcot to the Royal Academicians); generally supposed that in successive
(f) "Their ill report while you live" reigns the direction of the King's hund
(Hamlet, Act, 2, Sc. 2); (g) "A dead alternates, But this is entirely de-lon" (Ecclesiastes, ix, 4). pendent on the King's choice).
1. In front.
VII
2. (a) 8 (four on each foot); (b) 18 (pair of four and pair of five); (c) 6 (three on each foot); (d) 1 (two on each foot); (e) 20' (five on ench foot); (f) None.
3. (a) Darts; (b) Rowing at Oxford (e) Cricket; (d) Golf; (e) Fishing: (f) Fishing (0) Riding; (k) Deer- stalking.
1.
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1. (a) "weary be at rest" (Job. lii, 17); (5) of a bucket'! (Isaiah x1, 15); (e) "unto the wicked" (Isaiah xivill, 22): (d) "that he may run that readeth 1" (Hobaldkuk 1, 2); (e) "Pride goesth before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall" (Pro- verbs xvi, 18).
2. (a) Rabelais: Book 2, Ch. 32; (b) Poe: "To Helen"; (c) Tennyson:
(d) Sterne: "Sentimental (e) Deuteronomy xxxli, 10: (1) E: Bulwer Lytton: Richelieu. Act 2, Sc. 4; (0) Tennyson; "Godiva" (h) Alfred Bunn; (6) Emma Willard:
The Cradle of the Deep" (3) Francis Iafter Pavin; (k) Ecclesiastes viil, 0; (1) T. H. Bayly: "Isle of Beauty"; (m) Psalm xc, B.
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1 What the hiker often does in locks round, a watering-place. 6 Lark-like fragments.
Not beauty, but ten priests can produce it.
10 Particular.....
12 Flabby.
13 Old maid has a big start.
10 Taken out of court.
17 Right time for a gifi.
13 It's lace, somewhat tangled.
21 A Ash has swallowed the lout:
walking along 30 DowIL,
24 "Think on... all the noble-s of his life, And let them, like an angel's arm, unseen, Arrest the lifted sword" (Coleridge).
20 Have not won, not now.
27 Makes a signal.
28 Present crew..
31 U.S.A. State.
32 Part of Africa.
33 She started with defence.
34 Carf this kind of business! ever
be of the go-ahead 'type?
DOWN
1 The kind you are looking at
*NOW?***
2 Poetically late in the day-but there's nothing" odd about that." 3 Fully informed in two words
(3, 4).N
4 A place in the sun? (two words,
4) & Trap,
7 Should draw lots.
8 Supposed to characterise the country, not what it ends with..
11 Where the mall comes from.
14. And you, too, must be amazed to And more than five squares vacant when asked to do this.
15 Necessitates a couple of chair- men on their feet at once (two "words, 5, 5).
18 A close relative of Joshua's. 20 Not too particular with one."
article in sixty.
22 Hard part of keeping your hair
on.
23 Proceed with
Hampshire,
{24 Delight, `
25 Stipulation.
the game
29 Lancashire holiday behind.
vessel.
30 To no purpose.
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